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Ghana is a popular destination for West African countries. You want to go to Ghana, discover and learn about culture and the local way of life.
The country of the Gulf of Guinea offers you its authenticity and its unmissable tourist sites.
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- Meet & greet and airport transfers
- Land transportation all inclusive
- Pirogue ride on the Black Volta River during the Hippo safari
- Double accommodation in BB
- An English-speaking guide
- All entries and visits as per detailed program
- Meals and beverage
- Flight, travel insurance and visa
- Unforeseen circumstances and force majeure
- Others
Day 1 : Accra Van Der Salle
You are welcome upon your arrival at the Kotoka International Airport by your guide who will lend you airport assistance (if need be) and usher you to your car for the hotel transfer. Once in the hotel after check-in, you will have a briefing with your guide to fine-tune the next day’s program. Dinner and night in the hotel.
Day 2: Accra-City tour Van Der Salle
Breakfast and depart for a day sightseeing tour of Accra visiting the National Museum of History and Ethnography with exhibits that reflect the heritage of Ghana throughout history to the present. This Museum houses a varied collection of Ghana artefacts. Visit the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Park, final resting place for Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana. The Mausoleum has been visited by many world dignitaries. We later on continue to the unique casket-making shops where various designs of caskets are produced based on the African belief of life after death. Therefore, caskets are designed to reflect the earthly profession of the deceased with the belief that they can continue to practice this profession in the other world. Hence a bus driver will be buried in a bus, a teacher in a book, a doctor in a syringe etc. We drive past the Independence Arch and Black Star Square- Accra’s ceremonial grounds to visit the Arts and Crafts market. We might stop at the W.E.B. DuBois Centre for Pan Africanism and the Artists’ Alliance Gallery and may even be able to watch from distance the Christianborg Castle, former office and residence of the President of Ghana. A visit to the Cathedrals is interesting on Sundays, otherwise the architecture of the Holy Trinity Cathedral does worth the detour before heading to the hotel for the night.
Day 3: Accra-Cape Coast-Elmina Alberta’s Palace Beach Resort
This morning after breakfast, we leave the hotel and take road to Elmina with a stop at the Cape Coast Castle for a historical visit. The castle was originally built by the Swedes in 1652 to serve as the headquarters and seat of the British colonial government until 1877. We will spend a couple of hours or so on a comprehensive tour of the Castle where we will be lectured about the Slave Dungeons and the West African Heritage Museum. The guide will lead you to slave quarters and Negotiation Hall where our ancestors were bargained, sold and shipped to the ‘new world market’ in the Americas. After the visit, we continue our way to Elmina for night.
Day 4: Elmina Alberta’s Palace Beach Resort
Early breakfast and visit the Elmina Castle, the first and oldest European structure built of any substance on African soil. This was built by the Portuguese in1482 and later used as an auction market; today it is a Unesco World Heritage as it marks the very first place where Europeans landed in West Africa. It changed hands several times between the Dutch, the Portuguese and the British and finally became the auction market for slaves. During our comprehensive guided tour, we’ll see the slave dungeons and cells where slaves who attempted to escape were incarcerated and condemned. We will also have a look at its utterly distinct architecture.
Day 5: Elmina-Kakum Rainforest Lodge
We drive this morning to Kakum Rainforest Lodge from where we check-in for a day safari to the Kakum National Park. It is about a pristine rainforest featuring nature trails and an aerial walkway above tree canopies. We spend our day enjoying the informative hike under the good lead of a park ranger who will also share his medicinal plant experience with you. Here you have the possibility to try the aerial walkway which reaches a height of 120 feet, offering a panoramic view of the flora and fauna of the rainforest. We spend the rest of the evening at leisure in the lodge.
Day 6: Kakum – Kumasi Okubi hotel
A.M departure for Kumasi, the capital of the Ashanti Region. Our highlight of the day consists of a sightseeing tour of Kumassi where we visit the Manhyia Palace, the Palace Museum, the National Cultural Centre, the Prempeh II Jubilee Museum, the Okomfo Anokye Sword, the College of Art at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the Kumassi Central Market-the largest open-air market in West Africa.
Day 7: Kumasi Okubi hotel
Today we explore some interesting highlights in the vicinity of Kumasi. We visit few of the Ashanti craft villages where we witness the skill and imagination of local craftsmen using simple tools and traditional technology to produce authentic artefacts and designs from which you may pick souvenirs for friends and family back Home. We may also visit Ahwiaa, the woodcarvers’ village specializing in woodcarving such as the Ashanti stools, fertility dolls and walking sticks. Ntonso(famous for production of Adinkra cloth with exquisite hand-stamped designs), Bonwire (home to Ghana’s legendary Kente cloth), are also part of the scheme of this day.
Day 8: Kumasi – Larabanga – Mole NP Mole Motel
This morning we leave Kumasi for Larabanga from where we are able to access the Mole National Park Mole is one of the best park in the country offering great wildlife opportunity. It takes approximately four hours to reach the park from Kumasi on dirt road, but the drive also gives genuine encounter with people, various landscape and better understanding of the local culture. In the afternoon we go for a P.M game drive in the Mole NP.
Day 9: Mole National Park Mole Motel
This morning after breakfast we embark on a game-walk through the park, in quest of wildlife. Mole Np is preferred habitat for a wide range of wildlife including Savannah Elephant, Monkey, Antelopes, Warthog, Giraffes, Buffalo, as well as an extensive birdlife made up of Eagle, Egrets, Turaco, heron and a whole other lots of bird species.
In the afternoon, we go for a game drive to the eastern part of the park (Mognori) where we have renewed chances to spot some of the wildlife that prefers to roam around at sun time. If time does permit, we might visit the Mosque in the evening before heading back to the hotel for dinner & night.
Day 10: Mole National Park – Wechiau – Mole NP Mole Motel
This morning we will drive for three hours to the community of Wechiau where the interesting Hippopotamus sanctuary offers a breath-taking river safari over the Black Volta River. Along the bank of the river you have the opportunity to watch few hippos, birds and many other amphibian species including some big lizards. Along the way, we will also have a lecture on plant use for the community as well as their medical virtue. We will spend the day visiting the area before driving back to Mole which we attain in the evening just before dinner and night.
Day 11: Mole – Tamale – Yendi – Hohoe Muntala’s Guest House
After breakfast at hotel we leave for the Volta Region via the Yendi the Togo boarder. We drive across this amazing road through Gnani village where people believe on curse and consider the village to be an exile for those have been casted out from their community for being witches and wizards. We later on continue our way towards the Wli crossing habitats and various cultural display. We expect to reach Hohoe in the late afternoon.
Day 12: Hohoe Muntala’s Guest House
Hohoe region is much appreciated for the Tafi–Atome Monkey sanctuary near Nyagbo. It lies in a beautiful peaceful village whose inhabitants believe the rare True Mona Monkey is sacred and is messenger of the gods and their protectors; here, man and monkey live together in harmony. We have the opportunity to interact with the village folks of Tafi-Atome at the same time.
In the afternoon, we pay a visit to the the Wli cascades, reputed to be the highest waterfalls in Ghana. Put on your trekking shoes and enjoy a walk through a dense tropical forest as we will have to cross the 11 streams of the meandering Agumatsa River.
Day 13: Hohoe – Akosombo – Accra Van Der Salle
In the morning we leave Hohoe for Accra with a detour at Somanya where we visit the Cedi Beads Factory. Here, you will witness the intriguing art of beads-making following the ancient process. We also visit the Akosombo Dam along the Volta Lake, one of the largest man-made lakes in the world covering a total area of 8502sq km. We attain Accra in the late afternoon.
Day 14: Accra Return flight
Depending on your connecting flight time, we pick you up from your hotel for the airport transfer a couple of hours prior to your onward flight. Tour ends